"Still Alive"

"Still Alive" by Red (myspace.com/redwingthomas)
Featuring Jut, Lon Jon & Bonnie Grace
Directed by Steven Woods
Edited by Mark Shyers
Videography by Bobby Dodd

Lyrics:

Chorus

We are still alive
I say we are still alive
We are still alive
Everybody sing

Repeat x 2

Alive and well I'm gonna bring it to ya
Alive and well I'm gonna bring it to ya
Alive and well I'm gonna bring it to ya


RED verse :

From the depths of the underground
I rise alive to live for you
to die
Then resurrect myself through this poetry
Why do I try?
Cause
Over 500 years of attempted genocide and
WE ARE STILL ALIVE
Hold your head high
Do it right
They expected us to die
But didn't count on the warrior spirit inside
The eyes of an Indigenous
And yeah we resisted
The enemy persisted
Incarceration
Boarding schools forced assimilation
Relocated to a reservation
Then stripped of identity
The worse possible scenario
U.S.A. just couldn't get us to go
HELL NO
We are still alive I said we are still alive
Everybody sing!

Chorus.....


JUT verse

"Seen through a pain of wavy glass,
badly distorted, the stereotype,
built with the help of dime novels, nickelodeons,
brewery distributed, chromolithographic
fantasy's of Custer's last stand, hung above a multitude of lunch counters,
methods of mass education, simulation, koncentration kamp
rezervations, far as my eyes can see,
long as there's a breath to speak about it, Im'a shout it!
screaming native pride at the top of my lungs,
staring down Sam's gun,
he never had me on the run,
small pox, bloody island, wounded knee, 38, long walk, we still talk...
Phen hunska, tachpa e yelo!"



RED verse

The language is so vital to our survival
With the rifle pointed on our heads
We were forced to read the bible
Then the 12 apostles
Invaded our camps
Like missiles in Iraq
21st century still on track and guess what!!??
WE ARE STILL ALIVE I SAID WE ARE STILL ALIVE
everybody sing!

Chorus...

LON J:

Homeboy banging blue
Homeboy bangin red
Little shorty gangsta boo
holdin it down on the rez
thinking gangsta minds are cool
foolish thoughts of being cool
stop and check yourself
YOU are still alive
a warrior spirit lives inside each and every one of you

RED verse

A warrior spirit lives inside each and every one of you
Stand strong
Be real
Speak True!

Chorus....

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[wrouillard]

Yea "We are still Alive" love it!

[badrapids]

yeah! and the wolves are hungey, for we have came down from the moutains roll-on warrior

[jackattack1975]

sorry about the republishing of your video I really just wanted to upload it to my iphone after republishing your video I stumbled upon vGrabber youtube and turned your video into mp4. format and then drag and droped it to my itunes library then sent it to my iphone 4 it's like magic

[jackattack1975]

hey MaQDaddee i have just put out a copy of your video back on youtube available for mobile devices now its not as good as yours but good enough for me its under Sill-Alive by jackattack1975 i hope your all cool with it peace

[urbanrezz]

not bad

[93truenative]

Ye this song is hell'a good

[NativeMobLoka]

Take the Dine People on long walks or even seperate us from city environments but we Dine People are still around & can still win a World War.... AGAIN... u know whatz up

Native Mob

Loka-ATC

[cyresslee03]

i really love this song !!!! and we shall remain !!! just awesome !! forward go my brothers !!

[threegirlsstar]

@Godstatusc word..its mostly just the hook that makes it really good haha

[Godstatusc]

@threegirlsstar Yeah with better beats, love the message but man it would be off the hook with a better beat...

[threegirlsstar]

We Need Waay More Songs Like This!!!

[263mpnjz39]

damn i still jam out to diz song..i lik it alot..